Epidemiology of Trauma Patients and Analysis of 268 Mortality Cases: Trends of a Single Center in Korea
Yonsei Medical Journal
; : 220-226, 2015.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
There is an increasing incidence of mortality among trauma patients; therefore, it is important to analyze the trauma epidemiology in order to prevent trauma death. The authors reviewed the trauma epidemiology retrospectively at a regional emergency center of Korea and evaluated the main factors that led to trauma-related deaths. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
A total of 17007 trauma patients were registered to the trauma registry of the regional emergency center at Wonju Severance Christian Hospital in Korea from January 2010 to December 2012.RESULTS:
The mean age of patients was 35.2 years old. The most frequent trauma mechanism was blunt injury (90.8%), as well as slip-and-fall down injury, motor vehicle accidents, and others. Aside from 142 early trauma deaths, a total of 4673 patients were admitted for further treatment. The most common major trauma sites of admitted patients were on the extremities (38.4%), followed by craniocerebral, abdominopelvis, and thorax. With deaths of 126 patients during in-hospital treatment, the overall mortality (142 early and 126 late deaths) was 5.6% for admitted patients. Ages > or =55, injury severity score > or =16, major craniocerebral injury, cardiopulmonary resuscitation at arrival, probability of survival <25% calculated from the trauma and injury severity score were independent predictors of trauma mortality in multivariate analysis.CONCLUSION:
The epidemiology of the trauma patients studied was found to be mainly blunt trauma. This finding is similar to previous papers in terms of demographics and mechanism. Trauma patients who have risk factors of mortality require careful management in order to prevent trauma-related deaths.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Ferimentos e Lesões
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Escala de Gravidade do Ferimento
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Fatores de Risco
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Causas de Morte
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Mortalidade Hospitalar
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Sobreviventes
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Distribuição por Idade
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Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência
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República da Coreia
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Hospitalização
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Yonsei Medical Journal
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article